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15000 Anime Episodes Completed Special: Songs that sounds bitter

Some might know, some might not know, mostly my stalkers, that I have hit 15k episodes, in exact numbers, its already 15590 episodes.

Time to continue the sadness streak from 2 days ago, but this time I will cover on the music.

Ayana – Last Regrets 2006 Ver (Kanon)

I personally prefer this ver over the original because of its more high pitch notes which feels more of a sad wintery song, just listen it back to back. In fact Ayana pushed more of her vocal powess into this over original

Lia also sang her version with Ayana. If you dunno her, she’s your Angel Beats OP singer.

This song has lingered me for years and it stills feel fresh and addictive despite it having a bitter meaning behind.

Talking about Lia, she has her own collection of sentimentalist songs. This is gotta be one of her best.

This has to be it. She really pushed her vocals hard on this one, and it keeps creeping into my feels, even after so many years.

Bravely You was nice, but wasn’t as powerful and deep.

I don’t really know how to describe this song, it feels melancholic of course, but it has quite a deep meaning behind this song, just like the show itself, fitting it perfectly.

Toki o Kizamu Uta was a strong candidate for saddest song of all time, but I still think that its not deep enough. Maeda Jun will never run out of ideas.

Chiisana Tenohira is just tragic, that Dango piano intro sequence, it just mess me up.

Now for the vampire show.

Wow, she really has a deep library, at this rate it will be an artist feature. Time to move on to the next one.

Veil – Akai Yakusoku (Fortune Arterial)

I bet nearly none of you have heard this one before, because Fortune Arterial wasn’t really well received. This is not a BGM, the vocals comes after a minute plus. I gotta say, its one of the most calming song I have ever heard so far. You may think “Hey That Sounds Like Lia!”, but…

Most of them had no real experience in the music business, except for some trance collaboration/anisong projects before they joined Veil, and can be considered to be debut singers, with the exception of Lia, Aoi Tada and karuta.

(Credits to MyAnimeList)

Togashi Misuzu voiced your wimpy Yukiteru and irritating Origami by the way. Good to know.

This is the 2013 ver, recomposed for the sake of freshness to fit in the anime. I prefer this over the original because of its violin sequences, and slight modification in the main chords too, and I think Uehara Rena pushed more on the vocals on this ver too.

Original ver from the VN itself.

This is Yonezawa Madoka ver, whom she voiced Ogiso Setsuna in both the anime and VN. I liked her vocals tho, if they made a ’13 ver out of her vocals, it feels quite deep too.

You guys must be asking why this song, well, as many know WA2 scarred my heart quite deep with its romance stuff, and this alone can make me cry already.

It feels so lonely… yet bright, and very cold too… for some reason. Another heart scarring song. Will not go furthur, its too good to resist.

This has a slight bitter after taste. Its also pretty addictive.

And it finally comes to a close… at least for this part.

Ray – sign, Kisetsu no Shutter (Ano Natsu de Matteiru)

Isn’t this a happy song? I did say bitter as the criteria, for some reason it feels quite intensively bitter. I don’t know why.

Actually someone remixed it to match with the original OP, it feels extremely smooth, speaking of the piano ver, it feels deep, and depressing.

Heres the original

This song is just deep, in fact, I prefer this over ebullient future. About both songs, I don’t mind both languages, in fact, her English ver feels more deep, maybe because you get the meaning over the Japanese, but the Japanese mean exactly the same thing as the English ver. Now I’m not so sure why now.

Ok this wraps up my rather lengthy music post. There is always more, a never ending list of devastating songs. Hopefully this massive list can also somewhat make up to the lack of music posts for the past few months.

Ebullient Future has been a favorite of mine ever since I watched ef Melodies. I know the beginning of that recording is the credits of like, episode 9. The rest of it combined with the piano really makes it a strong set, doesn’t it? Congrats on so many episodes, and here’s to more that will come!